James Baldwin (escritor) Frases famosas
James Baldwin (escritor) livro Notes of a Native Son
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. <br class="br">"Me and My House" in Harper's (1955); republicado em Notes of a Native Son https://books.google.com.br/books?id=wmnVhmw3zVoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Notes+of+a+Native+Son&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMI296xud-1yAIVBoOQCh1A2ApO#v=onepage&q=%20imagine%20one%20of%20the%20reasons%20people%20cling%20to%20their%20hates%20so%20stubbornly&f=false (1955)
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James Baldwin (escritor) frases e citações
"Every time I attend a conference of white writers, I have a method for finding out if my colleagues are racist. It consists of uttering stupidities and maintaining absurd theses. If they listen respectfully and, at the end, overwhelm me with applause, there isn't the slightest doubt: they are filthy racists." <br class="br">Como citado por Daphne Patai & Noretta Koertge (1943) em Professing feminism: Education and indocrination in women's studies / Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge. — New and expanded ed. — Copyright 2003 by Lexigton Books, p. 80 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=5IKHbZacWJYC&pg=PA80. Texto traduzido por M. Elitista em uma publicação de 8 de outubro de 2015 https://www.facebook.com/AventurasnaJusticaSocial/photos/a.827394220675429.1073741828.827240997357418/905484919533025/?type=3 na página do Facebook Aventuras na Justiça Social https://www.facebook.com/AventurasnaJusticaSocial?fref=ts.
James Baldwin (escritor): Frases em inglês
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
James Baldwin livro The Fire Next Time
Fonte: The Fire Next Time
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
James Baldwin livro The Fire Next Time
Fonte: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin livro This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
Fonte: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk
Fonte: If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin livro Just Above My Head
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James Baldwin livro The Fire Next Time
Fonte: The Fire Next Time
Fonte: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
James Baldwin livro Giovanni's Room
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James Baldwin livro Nobody Knows My Name
Fonte: Nobody Knows My Name
“With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”
James Baldwin livro Giovanni's Room
Fonte: Giovanni's Room
“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
Variante: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
James Baldwin livro Go Tell It on the Mountain
Fonte: Go Tell It on the Mountain
which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next — one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Fonte: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
James Baldwin livro Giovanni's Room
Fonte: Giovanni's Room
